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arms in fallujah state of emergency in fiji - slammed by the biggest storm in the southern hemisphere. and sport - barcelona cannot win. 52 games without a loss for the la liga world, it s a club record. and a round up of sport in the race for the white house, voters have been going to the polls in south carolina and nevada. hillary clinton won a tight contest against bernie sanders in nevada. she got 52% of the votes, and the first state with a racially diverse electorate to vote. this is a live scene out of los angeles, where we are accepting hillary clinton to address his support. meanwhile, in south carolina, billionaire businessman donald trump is expected to win the republican contest. the big question is how big the margin will be. who ll gain momentum on the vote. we are in both states with the voting. we ll speak to alan fishing in columbia first, to michael shure, in los angeles. and, so, clinton has won, michael. was it by a big enough margin, was ....
pulls out of the fifa presidential elections. iran s president says there is a high voter turn out in the country s first elections since the lifting of international sanctions. people are voting in two polls one for parliament and one for the body of experts. a large number of hopefuls have been banned from running, around 12,000 people wanted to stand for the 290-seat parliament, but only 5,000 were given the go ahead. reporter: all sides appealed for a high turnout, and it looks like the voters have listened, throughout iran polling was brisk. the supreme leader cast one of the first ballots. translator: reports indicate a massive turn out. reporter: rouhani, standing for reelection in the assembly of experts is hoping for a turn out similar to the 72% that made him president 2.5 years ago. turnout like this should favor the reformists. they are hoping to make a big dent, enabling rouhani to encourage more investment in this economy. translator: we want ....
president, lee? reporter: yes, gianni infantino is the new president of fifa. this is not the result we were expecting, coming into this sheikh salman looked like he had the votes he needed, but those pledges didn t all turn into the support he needed, some of the 207-voting nations would have broken ranks, and not gone on their advise of their leader in the federation and voted the way he wanted them too. he has worked tire resly to get the support he needed to win this election. he was not originally standing. it was towards the end of last year, when michelle platini was banned from football, he was infantino s boss at uefa. he said i ll stand in until michelle platini is cleared. he wasn t cleared, and infantino stepped forward. now he has this huge job on his hands for a new cleaner fifa. lee, we re just seeing some pictures. he s standing up there at fifa headquarters in front of everybody. everybody obviously clapping, and i suppose this could be the start of ....
this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i m richelle carey. we are learning more about what may have been behind a shooting that left three people and the gunman dead in kansas. a worker opened fire at a lawn mower plant, and now the sheriff says police had gone to see cedrick ford about 90 minutes before he opened fire. mr. ford who was residing in newton, kansas had been served a protection order at 3:30 that afternoon. 3:30 he gets served. 5:00 we have the first shooting. john henry smith has more. reporter: police say it was late afternoon when 38-year-old cedrick ford began randomly shooting other drivers from his car, leaving two people wounded. he began randomly shooting other drives from his car, leaving two people wounded. then they say the painter at excel industries headed to his job. 150 employees were on duty at the lawn mower plant. the gun was strapped to him. he was ready to go. there was a report of shooting in a parking lot of exc ....
people are present in the political situation in iran. moderate tests of the president hassan rouhani, and major endorsement. i m proud to be here to endorse donald trump for president of the united states. chris christie endorses donald trump. and the new president of soccer s international governing body promises to restore trust in the scandal-plagued fifa. good evening, i m antonio mora, this is al jazeera america s international news hour. we begin in syria where it appears the guns have mostly fallen silent for the first time in nearly five years. a monitor being group and the united nations are reporting only scattered fighting since a truce took effect five hours ago. the syrian government and nearly a hundred rebel groups agreed to abide by the ceasefir ceasefiree heavy fighting rained up until deadline. i.s.i.l. and the al qaed qaeda-affiliate el new nusra frt is not included. our diplomatic editor james bays has the story. boarambassadors said this wa ....